New Medium Theatre at Shanghai Circus City to open in 2026

The new theatre at Shanghai Circus City is located in the southwest corner of the complex, occupying a total floor area of 3,705 square metres. It is scheduled for completion in 2026, creating a cultural complex integrating culture, The center of Shanghai will become a hub for cultural creation, tourism, leisure, commerce, performing arts, and ecology. This will result in the formation of a high-quality cluster area comprising "classic IP+digital performing arts+fashionable commerce+green ecology+cultural bazaar+social and aesthetic education." The project is a high-quality agglomeration area.

As a major engineering construction project in Shanghai, the design of the theatre in Shanghai Circus City is inspired by the circus spirit of rotation, climbing, and upward movement. The overall building is based on the concept of upward modeling of the spiral spire, which will unify the surrounding buildings and the park landscape as a whole through the spiralling ellipsoidal body.

The building is divided into two floors above ground and one underground, with a planned construction period of 730 days. On the west side, the ellipsoid is formed by a high theatre space, with an 800-seat auditorium and an 18-meter diameter ring-shaped performance stage. The stage area is 498 square metres, equipped with advanced stage machinery, lighting, sound, video projection and other equipment. On the east side, there is a two-story square volume of animal room function space.

The theatre will be a breakthrough attempt to integrate the development of "culture, tourism, business and green". "We will lead the future development of international, innovative, leading, multi-industry integration of the concept of acrobatics-based multi-performance market ecosystem planning and building, to promote the high-quality development of Shanghai's cultural tourism industry.

Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe's non-heritage projects and Circus City's unique cultural attributes will be the advantage of the integration of culture and business, culture and education with the surrounding business districts and communities, to carry out cultural lectures, art exchanges, art education and aesthetic education, citizens' parlours and other projects. The cultural tourism and performing arts industry of Shanghai Circus City plans to deeply integrate with the surrounding business districts, further amplify the advantages of regional tourism characteristics, and gather more popularity and customer flow. Shanghai Circus City will also take advantage of the green space of the neighbouring Daning Park to create an ecological performing arts project with complementary resource advantages.

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